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  1. Peter B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter B., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1920. He recalls his father's socialist activities; his mother's death in 1935; his family fleeing to Antwerp; his father's death while a physician in the Spanish Civil War; his brother's service in Spain; working in Brussels, then France; incarceration after war began in 1939; release; joining the Resistance; obtaining false papers; organizing a children's home near Montpellier with assistance from Cardinal Pierre Gerlier; imprisonments and escapes; arrest at the children's home; incarceration in Vénissieux, then Drancy ...

  2. Meir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir S., who was born in Ra?da?ut?i, Romania in 1928. He recalls visits to his grandparents in a nearby village; antisemitic harassment by other students; his sister's birth in about 1939; moving to Soviet-occupied Chernivt?s?i in 1940; attending school; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; forced labor with other children; train deportation to the Dniester River; several weeks on a forced march to Bershad?; many deaths en route; assisting his father make candies and selling them; his mother's disappearance (for a long time he harbored hope she survived); his fathe...

  3. Synagogues and Jewish businesses in Paris; summer camp for children

    The facade of a synagogue in Paris' 18th Arrondissement. Daily life in the surrounding bustling neighborhood, signs of many businesses include French and Hebrew script. Trash fills the gutters and cars and horse-drawn carts share the street. Scenes of an outdoor flea market at the nearby Porte de Clignancourt. Two uniformed soldiers march through the market. A view of the Sacre-Coeur basilica rising above the rooftops of the neighborhood. 01:02:32 Children on a beach at a summer camp on the Ile de Ré, off the coast of La Rochelle, in France. Their fists raised, interact with filmmaker Rober...

  4. Martin H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin H., who was born in 1929 in a small village, one of four children. He recalls his family's affluence; moving to Prague; recuperating from an illness in Banin; living with his grandparents in his birth village due to his health; attending cheder and public school; his younger brother joining him in 1938; Hungarian occupation; illegally traveling to Budapest; living with a Jewish family in IV. Keru?let; becoming ill; admission to a Joint hospital; returning to his birth village; ghettoization in Khust; hiding with his brother; round-up to the train station; depor...

  5. Magdalena N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magdalena N., who was born in Ružomberok, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920, one of two sisters. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; her strong Slovak identity; teaching Jewish students in L̕ubochňa; anti-Jewish restrictions, including the humiliation of having to wear the star; moving to Bratislava with her family; her father hiding them, then arranging for her and her sister to be smuggled to Hungary; interdiction in Senec; return to Bratislava; two strangers paying for their release; her sister's marriage to a man legally exempted from deportat...

  6. Legacies and papers of Chaim Finkelsztejn (Sygn. S/346)

    Contains personal documents of Chaim Finkelsztejn; correspondence, both official and personal from 1939 to 2001; reports, notes, projects, and papers (including a short biography of Chaim Finkelszejn); books, brochures, newspapers, newspaper clippings; invoices, tickets, stamps, and notes; and photographs.

  7. Selected records from the Prokurator Sądu Apelacyjnego w Kielcach (Sygn. GK 375)

    Records from trials at the appellate court in Kielce, 1945‒1950, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Communism propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  8. Larry H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry H., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia, the oldest of five children. He recalls attending Czech and Jewish schools; their relative affluence; leadership in a Zionist organization; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions including expulsion from school and confiscation of the family businesses; traveling to Budapest in 1942 to obtain a ticket to Palestine; giving it to someone else at his mother's urging; ghettoization; rumors of deportation; his father obtaining papers for him to serve in a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignment to Baia Ma...

  9. Selected records of the Commune Council in Radoszyce Gminna Rada Narodowa w Radoszycach (Sygn. 702)

    Plans of reconstruction of the burned settlement of Radoszyce and other villages in the commune of Radoszyce, plans and registers of abandoned Jewish properties; applications for building permits, inheritance claims (Jews in Radoszyce commune); files on marital status, religious matters, death and birth certificates; records on population movement in the commune of Radoszyce; registers of cemeteries of religious associations and tombs, Radoszyce commune, 1953.

  10. High Court of Justice Haute Cour de justice (3W)

    Consists of speeches, sentences, witness lists, reports, trial proceedings, telegrams, correspondence, interrogations, and a sentence ledger documenting the High Court of Justice, which was specifically created by decree of the French Ministry of Justice of the Provisional Government of the French Republic on November 18, 1944 to try persons who were a part of the government of Vichy from June 1940 to August 1944. Tried persons included the Chief of State, the Prime Minister and his cabinet ministers, Resident Generals in the protectorates, Governor Generals, and High Commissioners. The ori...

  11. Farming wine and tobacco; Mussolini visit to Berlin

    Rural/farming activity. MLS unloading tobacco leaves. 00:01:16 In Heidelberg, CU, door and porcelain sign: "Dr. med. E. Lobstein" "Arischer Arzt" [Aryan doctor]. 00:01:49 Grape harvest and wine pressing scenes. In Rhineland/Neustadt, kneeling to pick grapes, VCU, beautiful light. MLS of vineyard and workers. MS, older woman bent over basket. MLS edge of field, pouring grapes from basket and into big press. INT dark, primitive, grape press, slowly coming down. Leaking out of barrel down chute. Grape pulp being ground up. CU, grapes. In field, little boy helps man. Loading funnel, press. Scar...

  12. Documentation from the Archive of the Landrat of the Ludwigslust district (Mecklenburg Province, Germany)

    Documentation from the Archive of the Landrat of the Ludwigslust district (Mecklenburg Province, Germany) In the18th century the rulers of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Herzogtum (Duchies) established their residential palace in Ludwigslust. In the 19th century barracks were also established in the city, which housed the Duchies' army units. The district, with the city of Ludwigslust at its center, was established in 1922. In the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State, its administrative unit was defined and called the Amt (office). In 1933, when the Nazis acted in order to create uniformity among the local...

  13. Niehof, Hans-Jürgen.- Bildbestand

    Bestandsbeschreibung Fotoalben zu dienstlichen und privaten Anlässen Zitierweise BArch N 2816-BILD/...

  14. Cadik D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cadik D., descendant of a rabbinical family, who graduated from rabbinical school in Sarajevo in 1937. He recalls working in Kosovska, then Pristina; involvement with progressive student groups; his denunciation by the fascist newspaper "Balkan"; moving to Split; participation in Hoshomer Hatzair; being drafted in 1940; serving in Skopje; German invasion in April 1941; escaping incarceration as a prisoner of war; returning to Sarajevo; anti-Jewish regulations; traveling to Italian-occupied Split; resistance activities; hiding a partisan wounded by Ustas?a; his sister ...

  15. Lewkowicz family. Collection

    This collection contains: the IDs of siblings Jakob Lewkowicz and Perla Lewkowicz; six photos of the Lewkowicz family including photos of the Lewkowicz family at the time of their migration to Belgium, photos of youngest daughter Rosine Regine Lewkowicz and photos of the Lewkowicz children with friends.

  16. Brockmann, Johannes

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1240
    • German
    • 1930-1975
    • Nachlässe 84 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 2,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Vorsitzender der Deutschen Zentrumspartei (1946-1957), MdB (1953-1957) Lebensdaten 17. Juli 1888 geboren in Paderborn Ausbildung am Paderborner Lehrerseminar ab 1911 Lehrtätigkeit an einer Volksschule in der Nähe von Bocholt ab 1913 Wechsel an die Schule in Rinkerode, ab 1930 Schulleiter Vorsitzender des katholischen Junglehrerverbandes ab 1919 Mitglied der Zentrumspartei Vorsitzender des westfälischen Windthorstbundes 1925-1933 Abgeordneter im Preußischen Landtag 1933 Entlassung aus dem Schuldienst durch die Nationalsozialisten, danach Lehrtätigkeit an einer...

  17. Büchner, Robert.- Tonbestand

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Biografische Angaben: 18. Oktober 1904 geboren in der Lutherstadt Eisleben; später Ausbildung zum Müller 1922 Beitritt zum Kommunistischen Jugendverband Deutschlands (KVDJ) 1924 Wanderschaft für KVDJ durch Deutschland; Eintritt in die Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD) 1928 Redakteur der Zeitung "Freiheit" in Düsseldorf 1931 Redakteur in Wuppertal und Hagen 1932 Untertauchen da Ermittlung wegen Hochverrats; von KPD zum Studium an die Internationale Lenin-Schule nach Moskau delegiert 1934 Rückkehr nach Deutschland/Berlin 1934 - 1935 Arbeit für die illega...

  18. Landesarbeitsamt Niedersachsen

    Allgemeine Verwaltung, Tarifsammlungen, Personalia des Landesarbeitsamtes; Akten des Reichstreuhänders der Arbeit, geordnet nach Gewerbegruppen; Akten des Reichstreuhänders für den öffentlichen Dienst, geordnet nach Gewerbegruppen

  19. Ústředna obchodních a živnostenských komor, Praha

    • Headquarters of Chambers of Commerce and Trade, Prague / NAD 374
    • Národní archiv
    • 374
    • English
    • 1922-1948
    • Textual material 186,10 linear meters

    The fonds includes materials on the organization, development and personnel matters of the Headquarters, minutes from meetings, documents on its legislative work; materials on the economic development in the Czechoslovak Republic and abroad, tax and customs policies, trade fairs and congresses, pricing policy, combating usury, etc.; numerous documents on foreign trade, international trade agreements, reports of Czechoslovak embassies for the Headquarters (situation on local markets, characteristics of individual companies in individual countries). Information on Jews can be specifically fou...

  20. Sternefeld-Hemelrijk-Mok testimony. Collection

    This collection consists of an interview of Mirjam Hemelrijk who survived the war in an orphanage in the Netherlands, Eva Sternefeld who survived the war in Suriname and Rachel Mok who survived the war in the United Kingdom ; photos of Samuel Lisser and Rachel Keyser, adoptive parents of Mirjam Hemelrijk.